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A.K.A. audio card, the sound card is an expansion card that provides extra audio capabilities to a computer. Once a separate component needed by older computers, newer machines tend to have these sound capabilities built into the motherboard.

I am looking for a sound card for my Linux gaming rig. So far what I have found, are sound cards that are not well supported and don't work well.
What I need:
Support for front panel audio ports.
At ...

I'm trying to use a USB sound card for digitalizing an analog audio signal coming from the earphone port of a walkie-talkie-like device.
I'm using ALSA drivers for this purpose and checking the audio ...

I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 on Thinkpad Edge E540 laptop. I have problem with sound. When I play music, the sound is too noisy (before I install Ubuntu, I had Windows 7 on my laptop and sound ...

I've asked a similar question before without much yield. It was just people pointing me to different FAQ pages and the likes. It says I have two sound cards when I type sudo aplay -l correct me if I'm ...

I have bought a ttesports BAHAMUT external sound card. But it's not working in my Ubuntu 14.04. It should work as plug and play. I have tested this on Windows 8.1 and it's working fine but I need this ...

I have Asus Xonar D-kara. Worked like a charm in Win7-8 but since i got to my new fav 14.04 (tried 15 also) Ubuntu just doesn't detect it. I see only my integrated(intel) and thats it. Its the same in ...

Hardware: Macbook pro 5,3 with Cirrus Logic CS4206A
Software: Ubuntu 12.04.4 amd64+mac
every single time that I turn off ubuntu, my speakers make a pop noise, I think that the soundcard have a problem ...

I have an Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller .
when recording sound using Audio Recorder , the output is a distorted sound barely you can understand .
but in skype it works perfect and ...

I have a 4 channel stereo input to USB sound card that I have connected with a odroid-c1 sbc running lubuntu 14.04. I need to capture the audio from USB sound card. For this I had pulseaudio installed ...

I've gone through installick JACK and Rakarrack. I then had the problem with other audio (like YT flash videos or music player) disappearing when I turn on JACK etc., I've just installed pulseaudio ...

I have a problem with HDAjackretask from Alsa-Tools which is when I have the speakers configured on the system for my LCD speakers, Built-in Speakers and the Beats Subwoofer, the Mute LED don't work ...

I've found a lot of useless questions and blog entries regarding Linux compatibility with sound cards, but no real information from real users. That's why I'm writing this question.
I've got a good ...

Background:
I have checked out alsa compatibility list and they have support for my audigy 4 (non pro) but it shows up as audigy 2 value and there is quite a big difference between the 2 card.
I had ...

I have a sound card CMI8738. There is no output for the sound when I play videos. But when I go to sound settings the sound for the video comes up. When I close the sound settings
the sound is gone ...

I'm having problems getting a USB sound device from Schiit Audio to work. Goggle found plenty of cases where other people have had problems, but I am past their problems into one of my own.
To start ...

sometimes when I open laptop there is no sound in the system, I have to go into sound settings and after playing a while with sound driver setting it seems to work good, but when I close laptop and ...

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. after the boot the audio from speakers is not coming as output.but it indicates the speakers is in full volume. it makes the sound as output soon after connecting the head ...

I have an intel on board sound card and also nvidia graphics card. The problem is that in kmix settings I am not able to choose any other sound card but the HDMI controller. The sound works over HDMI ...

I'm a first time Ubuntu user as of today. I've installed on an old laptop of mine, a Compal FL90.
I forgot until this new install that the internal sound card is faulty and makes a nasty high-pitch ...

I don't know why my USB sound card won't work on my Ubuntu 14.04. I mean I can hear sound from my headset but my problem is the microphone. Whenever I tried to record my voice, there was nothing being ...

Sound Blaster recon 3d
I installed ubuntu 14.04 on my computer and I'm totally new to ubuntu. I cannot get my sound card to work, it's a sound blaster recon3D. I read that this card now has support ...

I recently performed a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04.5 to cure a few problems, including only having 'dummy output' for sound. After re-install the sound worked fine right up until I installed Gnome 3 ...